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I went immediately to Court, and was taken up the back staircase by the Queen's train-bearer to the petit oratoire, where her Majesty was shut up all alone.
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True, you might object to the _oratoire_; but in all else I am confident you would approve, and in all else felicitate Adèle upon the home which was preparing for her.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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Roi d'Angleterre, ingrat des grâces que son père Henri II. y avait recues, en dépit de son père qui affectionnait cette Eglise, son avarice le poussant, pilla cet oratoire et enleva les plaques qui couvraient le corps de S. Amadour et emporta ce qui était de la Trésorerie; mais Dieu qui ne laisse rien impuni châtia le sacrilege de cet impie Prince par une mort malheureuse.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Madeline Dodds, of Mississauga, is one of five grand-prize winners of the Concours d'art oratoire, a public speaking contest held Saturday at the University of Ottawa.
MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010
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I went immediately to Court, and was taken up the back staircase by the Queen's train-bearer to the petit oratoire, where her Majesty was shut up all alone.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Complete [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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I went immediately to Court, and was taken up the back staircase by the Queen's train-bearer to the petit oratoire, where her Majesty was shut up all alone.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Volume 3 [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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And the boudoir-oratoire — you should make that room your study; it is so quiet and solemn.”
Villette 2003
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Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, Shelly Glover, Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages and Member of Parliament (Saint Boniface), will deliver remarks and present awards tomorrow at the Provincial Awards Ceremony for Canadian Parents for French Manitoba's Concours d'art oratoire.
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Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, Shelly Glover, Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages and Member of Parliament (Saint Boniface), will deliver remarks and present awards tomorrow at the Provincial Awards Ceremony for Canadian Parents for French Manitoba's Concours d'art oratoire.
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And the boudoir-oratoire -- you should make that room your study; it is so quiet and solemn. "
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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